Using capital letters in a personal profile – English 1AC
Practise capital letters in a short personal profile without capitalising every important word.
1. Names and sentence beginnings
Start a sentence with a capital letter. Capitalise personal names and place names: Adam, Salma, Rabat, Morocco. Common nouns such as school and student normally stay lower case.
2. Languages and nationality words
Write English, French and Arabic with capital letters. Nationality words also take capitals: Moroccan, British. Days and months do too: Monday, October.
3. The pronoun I
The pronoun I is always a capital, even in the middle of a sentence. Read a profile twice: first for meaning, then for capitals and full stops.
Summary diagram
Worked example
Incorrect: «my name is sara. i live in rabat and i study english.» Correct: «My name is Sara. I live in Rabat and I study English.» The word name does not need a capital.
6 exercises with answers
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Exercise 1
Correct: i am a student.
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I am a student.
Exercise 2
Correct: My friend lives in morocco.
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My friend lives in Morocco.
Exercise 3
Choose: french or French.
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French, because it is a language name.
Exercise 4
Correct: We study on monday.
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We study on Monday.
Exercise 5
Should every noun have a capital in English?
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No. Common nouns normally use lower case unless they begin a sentence.
Exercise 6
Correct: ali and i speak arabic.
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Ali and I speak Arabic.